A review by domino911
All the Things You Are by Declan Hughes

4.0

Really enjoyed this. It is fast paced, breathless at times. I loved Declan Hughes' Ed Loy series although I thought the last one, City of Lost Girls, was weaker than previous. This passed me by though and I discovered it by fortunate accident. The novel is a departure from the excellent Irish-noir of the Ed Loy books, an American-set domestic thriller similar in may respects to those of Linwood Barclay or Harlan Coben. The book is well-written and Hughes' choice of words is almost poetic at times, a joy to read with only a couple of caveats - a) he has a habit (that I don't recall from his other books) of using a) and b) lists when describing characters recollections or choices and b) occasionally introducing a scene by pulling back, almost cinematically, and using an omnipotent narrator to describe the action below (look at them talking, we can almost but not quite hear what they are saying, let's go in...). both of these only served to temporarily pull me out of what was otherwise a fairly frantic page-turner of a novel.